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Re: [Nmh-workers] suppress Content-ID's with new mhbuild option?
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David Levine |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] suppress Content-ID's with new mhbuild option? |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:31:58 -0500 |
Oliver wrote:
> David Levine wrote:
> > Any suggestion on how to associate the option values with the build
> > directive? printf style?
> >
> whatnow: -attach X-MH-Attachment='#%T; name="%N" <%C>[%D; %M] %F'
>
> I don't see why that needs to be configurable instead of hard coded.
I want to use something different than what's in the code.
> > whatnow? attach -mime-type=application/wierd -name=foo -mode=0x640 -descr
> iption="my app" -contentid="" /tmp/foo
>
> Looks good for the most part. MH commands tend to use a space instead of
> =. I wouldn't include mode given that x-unix-mode is non-standard. Could
> always use long options (e.g. --x-unix-mode) similar to pick's syntax
> for additional components.
Good idea. Though as I indicated in my response to Jon, I
don't know if the options are even needed.
> > If any value in the build directive isn't specified, it
> > would be determined automatically (using mhshow-suffix for
> > the mime-type as it is now, and getting the name from the
> > filename, and so on).
>
> Could also allow something like -autodescription to specify a command to
> generate the description automatically. So running file to get a
> description would be something you need to configure. For the mime type
> it would allow you to use a script that uses .mailcap files.
>
> > It might be possible to add support for Content-Disposition
> > here.
>
> The filename ought to go in Content-Disposition really. Can always copy
> that from the file="" component. We may need some syntax for specifying
> the main value for Content-Disposition, though.
One reason I want to use a different build directive is that
I currently do use Content-Disposition. Eventually, the
configurable build directive could include support for that.
For the time being, I'll try without it and see if anything
breaks.
David
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